
(1976): “ The evolution of intelligence and access to the cognitive unconscious.Financial Times: One of the Best Books of 2017 Business Insider : One of the Best Science Books of 2017 Dr. John Bargh book “ Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”: Įpisode 155: John Bargh: Dante, Coffee and the Unconscious Mind: (56:28) Grooving Session with Kurt and Tim discussing the interview. (50:08) How can we prevent ourselves from being influenced by our context? (47:33) What research is John engaged in right now? (44:29) What direction is the research on priming and automaticity heading in the future? (37:14) Are employees starting to self-select which corporation they work for? (35:17) How Simone Biles is an example of changing attitudes in society. (30:14) Can you prime someone to commit murder? (25:09) Do we control situations or do situations control us? (19:42) How did the Stanford Prison Experiment impact social psychology research?

(15:04) How you activate a different cultural identity. (11:51) A summary of John’s research on automaticity and priming. (3:58) Welcome to John Bargh and speed round questions. And thank you to all of our loyal listeners who already donate to our podcast. And if you want to help more, your financial support goes a long way.

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We couldn’t resist asking him for some more wise words, so listen to the end to find out John’s advice to all of us. In our last interview with John, he left us with some parting wisdom to hug our children more. John describes them as pioneers: “ what pioneers and leaders do is they give an alternative example for the other people and say, “You know what, you don’t have to do this, here’s what I did.”” Interestingly our conversation shifted towards changing attitudes in society and in particular the inspiration stance that athletes such as Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka have taken recently to prioritize their mental health. As the world’s leading expert on the unconscious mind, John gave us fresh insight on how our behavior is primed by factors such as our cultural identity and even by who we are thinking about. Do We Control Situations or Do Situations Control Us? With John BarghĬan we control our unconscious behavior? How much does the situation we’re in control us? Can we prime people to behave a certain way? Is it even ethical to try? To what degree do cultural identity and stereotyping impact the automaticity of our actions?įollowing on from our discussion with Dr Philip Zimbardo PhD, in our last episode (#247) about the Stanford Prison Experiment, we reached out to our friend and previous guest ( episode #155), Dr John Bargh PhD, social psychologist at Yale University.
